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Cards & Gift Wrapping
You’ll find writing pads, pens, markers, crayons and all your other stationery needs at supermarkets and stationery shops. Gift wrap, tags and English greeting cards are also widely available, although finding something that suits your taste may be slightly more challenging. While Hallmark and American Greetings are popular, if it’s cards and gift wrap with a bit more attitude that you’re after you could try looking in the home decor stores.
Prints is one of the nicest stationery shops in town. Masterminded by a Swedish designer, it stocks acid-free photo albums, journals, cards where you can mix and match envelopes, boxes and gift wrap so beautiful it should be framed.
If you want custom-designed cards, many of the digital printers in town can help you to design a card (many of them have in-house graphic designers) for a small fee and they’ll then print the quantity you need. Turnaround time can be as fast as a day but prices and quality do differ so you might want to shop around. Middleroad Singcrafts (commonly known as MRS Signs) in Raffles Place MRT station does a decent job, and Jireh Digital (www.jireh.com.sg) whose swanky office is behind Boat Quay on Circular Road run a thriving business too.
The widest range of greeting cards in town is to be found in one of Kalm’s six outlets in various malls. They also sell gift wrap, teddy bears, paper products photo frames, wedding guest books and generic gifts (see gifts on p.339).
Bargain hunters can save money by buying gift wrap in bulk at the Concourse Building on Beach Road. On the second floor of this strangely dormant building is a cluster of five or six wholesalers of fake plants, gift wrap, party hats and favours, plastic boxes, bags and party snacks mostly from China. You’ll find a sheet of gift wrap here for as little as 20 cents. And if you’re particularly conscientious you can always pick up good deals on Christmas cards, ribbon and wrapping paper a day or two after Christmas Day when the price of seasonal paraphernalia is usually slashed by half.
Prints is one of the nicest stationery shops in town. Masterminded by a Swedish designer, it stocks acid-free photo albums, journals, cards where you can mix and match envelopes, boxes and gift wrap so beautiful it should be framed.
If you want custom-designed cards, many of the digital printers in town can help you to design a card (many of them have in-house graphic designers) for a small fee and they’ll then print the quantity you need. Turnaround time can be as fast as a day but prices and quality do differ so you might want to shop around. Middleroad Singcrafts (commonly known as MRS Signs) in Raffles Place MRT station does a decent job, and Jireh Digital (www.jireh.com.sg) whose swanky office is behind Boat Quay on Circular Road run a thriving business too.
The widest range of greeting cards in town is to be found in one of Kalm’s six outlets in various malls. They also sell gift wrap, teddy bears, paper products photo frames, wedding guest books and generic gifts (see gifts on p.339).
Bargain hunters can save money by buying gift wrap in bulk at the Concourse Building on Beach Road. On the second floor of this strangely dormant building is a cluster of five or six wholesalers of fake plants, gift wrap, party hats and favours, plastic boxes, bags and party snacks mostly from China. You’ll find a sheet of gift wrap here for as little as 20 cents. And if you’re particularly conscientious you can always pick up good deals on Christmas cards, ribbon and wrapping paper a day or two after Christmas Day when the price of seasonal paraphernalia is usually slashed by half.
